[SEL] How not to load and engine....Flywheel needed.

brent brent.tamatea at clear.net.nz
Fri Dec 28 15:50:35 PST 2007


Keith my condolences that was tragic hopefully there is a donar out there
with a spare one for you still a cool looking engine  brentnz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Kinney" <kkinney at herculesengines.com>
To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 12:22 PM
Subject: [SEL] How not to load and engine....Flywheel needed.


> Back in July we were loading our Oil City/South Penn Half-breed
> engine to take to our county fair.  The engine is on skids and when
> we take it to a show we just back our flat bead trailer up to the
> engine and hook a winch to the skids.  It normally just comes right
> up on the trailer no big deal.  Well, this time it didn't work too
> well.  The engine was sitting on wood blocks to keep it off the
> ground.  When the front of the engine slid off the block it caused
> the engine to tip over.  When it tipped over the left flywheel landed
> on the skid of the 15 HP Reid sitting next to it.  You guessed it,
> all the spokes broke out of the flywheel.  We were just sick.  So, if
> you have any leads on were we might be able to pick up another
> flywheel please let me know.  For all the gruesome details I've
> posted before and after pictures here:
> http://www.herculesengines.com/Oil%20City/default.htm
>
> Learn from our miss fortune and be extra careful when loading those
engines
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